TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
MCHD awards
SPURS program
FFA helps with
backpack program
Bob Houser, CEO of MHCD presents benefit fund to Public
Health Director of CCS, Kimberly Lindsay.
Kevin Gray (left), MCGG general manager presented two
checks to the backpack program. One was from MCGG and
the other from Land O’ Lakes Foundation for a matching
grant that Gray received on behalf of the program. Receiving
the check are Jacee Currin, Tiffany Akers, Marlee Mitchell,
Cami VanArsdale and Casey Fletcher, all enrolled in the Ag
Leadership course that oversees the management of the project.
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“Oz” performed at
Ione Elementary
The Ione Public Li-
brary and Ione Topic Club
sponsored “Dorothy in the
Land of Oz” at the Ione el-
ementary school on March
11. The program from the
Traveling Lantern Compa-
ny was performed before
approximately 100 students
and adults.
Two members of the
Traveling Lantern, Allyson
and Allison, performed
most of the acting parts.
One played Dorothy, while
the other played the scare-
crow, the tin man and the
rest of the main parts, with a
little audience participation.
Each year the library
has three or more programs
as part of their summer
reading program for chil-
dren. The Ione Topic Club
chooses and pays for one
program each year.
Chamber Chatter
Fridays, March 22 and Veterans Services and Ore-
29 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 gon Department of Veterans
p.m. at the Heppner City Affairs, are $10 per person.
Hall, Free In-Person Tax
Preparation Service. AARP
Foundation Tax-Aide offers
free tax preparation to any-
one of any age, especially
for those 50 or older or can’t
afford paid tax preparation.
Friday, March 29 at 5
p.m., Community-Wide
Salute to Veterans Dinner
at Stokes Landing (Irrigon
Senior Center) to show your
appreciation to those who
have served in the military.
Tickets may be purchased at
City of Boardman, City of
Irrigon and local branches
of Bank of Eastern Oregon.
The tickets for this event,
hosted by the Irrigon Senior
Center, Morrow County
Morrow County Health
District’s Community Ben-
efit Fund awarded $5,200
to Community Counseling
Solution’s SPURS (Stu-
dents Providing Under-
standing and Respectful
Support) Program that pro-
vides peer mentoring to
students struggling with
mental health issues.
SPURS works to iden-
tify depression and other
mental health diagnoses in
adolescents to ensure appro-
priate referrals and improve
the health and well-being
of youth in Morrow Coun-
ty. The program employs
high school students to
Students in the Heppner
FFA Chapter have taken on
responsibilities for support
of the Backpack Project this
year. The Backpack Project
allows kids in need to take
home backpacks of food for
the weekend when they are
unable to receive food at
the schools. Anyone who
is in need can sign up for a
backpack, from elementary
to high school students.
The FFA students pack
backpacks with two or three
breakfast and lunch meals,
a can of fruit, a can of veg-
etables and six snacks per
child. Also included in their
job is pick up and delivery
to the elementary school,
manage food inventory and
educate students on nutri-
tional meals by holding
workshops.
Two workshops have
been held so far this school
year and there are plans
to do one more later this
spring. The workshops
show the kids how to make
a proper nutritional meal for
themselves as well as their
A number of students participated in the Taco Make ‘n Take families. At the first work-
in October.
shop students were taught
to make tacos, where they
each made their own tacos
and could eat their makings.
They also took a bag home
Prayer
team to
meet
The Heppner Prayer
Team will meet Wednesday,
March 27 at 5:30 p.m. at
the SDA Church on Minor
Street. The topic will be
“Prayer and Trust” and
the community prayer fo-
cus will be for Heppner
and Ione Middle and High
School teachers, staff and
students.
For additional infor-
mation or prayer requests,
contact the prayer team
at heppnerprayerteam@
gmail.com.
with all the fixings to make
tacos at home. Everyone is
invited to participate in the
workshops whether they
participate in the backpack
program or not.
The Backpack Project
identified a need in the
community and has been
working to help fulfill this
need. Various, generous
donations have been re-
ceived from Willow Creek
Economic Development,
DPR Construction, Na-
tional FFA, The Carlson
Family, Breaking Bread,
Van Schoiak Ranch, Dick-
enson’s, Triangle Ranches,
Heppner FFA Chapter, Mor-
row County Grain Growers,
Land O’ Lakes and more.
The donations have helped
grow the Backpack Project
tremendously. Currently
over 900 weekend meals
have been provided, which
includes everything within
a backpack for one child,
and have fed an average
of 40 kids every week. Ac-
cording to a spokesperson
for FFA, “Our goal is to ful-
fill this need in our commu-
nity and the whole process
is extremely rewarding as
you see the results of chil-
dren who are grateful for a
helping hand.”
4-H/FFA members
attend animal
nutrition class
Please join us
for a special
Open
House
Ione
Library
to meet
The Ione Library Dis-
trict’s board of directors
will hold their monthly
meeting Monday, March 25
at 6 p.m. at the Ione Public
Library, 385 W Second St,
Ione. The public is welcome
to attend.
mentor children in second-
through fourth-grade using
evidence-based curriculum.
Currently, SPURS has 19
mentors and 24 mentees
and continues to grow.
“We are thrilled to sup-
port a local program for
our youth to improve men-
tal health support services
in our county,” says Bob
Houser, CEO. “Community
Counseling Solutions and
the Morrow County School
District are strong partners
in our continued efforts
to improve the health and
well-being of our commu-
nity.”
at the
newly remodeled
Irrigon Medical Clinic.
Working Together
to be a Healthier
Community
Today and
Meet our patient-focused health
providers and staff, tour the facility,
enjoy refreshments, and discover
all the ways we’re working to
help you and your family get well
and stay healthy in a friendly and
comfortable environment.
An animal nutrition
class sponsored by Morrow
County Grain Growers and
CHS Nutrition was held
for all Morrow County 4-H
and FFA members who are
raising show animals last
Friday.
Ryan Corta, CHS nutri-
tionist and Jamie Helfrecht,
MCGG Green Feed manag-
er hosted the event for 50
students and their families
to learn more about feed-
ing their animals for show
performance. A pizza lunch
was served and each student
received a voucher for a bag
of feed from Green Feed.
Happy
Thursday, March 21, 2019
12:00pm–2:30pm or 5:00pm-7:00pm
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